Why Goltzius & The Pelican Company is the one film you should watch this week – video

Peter Bradshaw recommends Goltzius & The Pelican Company by writer-director Peter Greenaway. Based on the life of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, the film fuses the aesthetic of that period with the modern medium of digital film. It is very recognisably a Greenaway film – the theatrical static speeches delivered square on to camera and the painterly group compositions – but it has an urgency that feels new and exciting